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Information Acquisition
Case Assumption: A student would like to search for news about “Australian Aborigines” by using the online news catalogue system e.g. ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). According to Wilson’s theory (1981), information seeking behavior may be affected by some barriers which have mentioned in the “information need” part. As shown in the table below, the behavior in news media would be:
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